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Did you learn anything yesterday?I learned that notes of a songAre played like daisies being plucked along a path.I learned … More

“Safe Haven,” Episode 14 of my fifth Lt. David Chan Hawai’i-based mystery, is now available on the Kindle Vella platform.

My grandfather came to Honolulu in 1870 from Canton Province in China. He was nine years old. He spoke no … More

New York is a stare-up cityI stand awed all over againThe tallest buildings jammedA million odds-on calculated gamblesOf engineering and … More

“What are you doing?” asked Kelso, watching Chan hand over his revolver to the monk who’d swung open the 12-foot … More

It happened so quickly. We’d just left the reception and were headed for Heathrow. A honeymoon. It’s been so long … More

Someone had jammed a white-hot poker in him. He came to with the pain. The first thing he saw was a woman’s … More

You’re like a combination bar and restaurantWhen I come in I’m torn between hunger and thirstTry to ease the tension … More

I believe every story has two endingsThe first once I’ve read itThose images swirling in my mindWords and echoed lines … More

I’m no romantic. When I met my wife, it was love at first sight. You hear about that happening, but who believes … More

“We lost him,” said Kauhane. “I want Agent Daniel to take a look at the corpse and see if he recognizes … More

And as she agedShe whisperedSoft and always softerMy hand on hersHer fingers worn and weakened armsBreath fading fainterHow she played … More

I heard Agent Daniel get up and head for the bathroom. The sun was just coming up over Papakōlea. When … More

By the time Captain Kauhane and Sergeant Kelso made it out to the gate area, Sergeant Kalahiki, covered in blood, … More

I came awake in the dark. It took me a moment to figure out where I was and what I … More

to the final falls at the river’s headbecomes more treacherousthe closer I come to getting there,the more slippery the terrain,boulders … More

For who knew what bright reason, most airlines scheduled flights to arrive during roughly the same time periods. There were … More

Everything under the sun and the moon seemed to be keeping me up tonight. When I was putting together a … More

The Blue Light Bar and Grill, owned by Rick Yamanaha, had become an H.P.D. hangout when the police station stood … More